RUFOUS SONG-LARK. 
Cincloramphus mathewsi vigor si Mathews, ib. , new name for Anthus rufescens Vigors and 
Horsfield ; Ashby, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 231, 1917 (S.A.). 
Ptenoedus mathewsi mathewsi Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 205, 1913. 
Ptenoedus mathewsi subalisteri Mathews, ib. ; id., South Austr. Ornith., Vol. 3, p. 140, 
1918. 
Ptenoedus mathewsi horsfieldi Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 205, 1913. 
Ptenoedus mathewsi vigorsi Mathews, ib. ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 258, 1914 ; S. A. 
White, Emu, Vol. XVIII., p. 21, 1918. 
Poodytes gramineus normani (errore) Mathews, Austral. Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 5, p. 97, 
Sept. 24, 1914 : Normanton, North Queensland. 
Ptenoedus mathewsi normani Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 133, Jan. 28, 
1915 : correction of preceding : Normanton, North Queensland. 
Maclennania mathewsi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., p. 127, 1917. 
Maclennania mathewsi mathewsi Mathews, ib. 
Maclennania mathewsi subalisteri Mathews, ib. 
Maclennania mathewsi horsfieldi Mathews, ib. 
Maclennania mathewsi vigorsi Mathews, ib. 
Maclennania mathewsi normani Mathews, ib. 
Cincloramphus mathewsi ( subalisteri ) Soderberg, Kungl. Svensk Vetensk., Handl. Bd., 52, 
p. 92, 1918 : N.W.A. 
Distribution. Australia ; not Tasmania. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface dark hair-brown with buffy-white, or 
greyish-white margins to the feathers on the top of the head, back, scapulars and 
wings ; inner margins of flight-quills whitish ; upper tail-coverts rust-colour ; 
tail-feathers only slightly paler on the edges of some of the feathers ; a pale streak 
from the lores to above the eye milk-white like the throat ; sides of face pale 
brown with more or less white intermixed ; remainder of the under-surface greyish- 
white, somewhat darker on the breast where the feathers are spotted with brown, 
tinged with buff on the under tail-coverts, and more or less dark .markings on the 
under wing-coverts ; under-surface of quills and lower aspect of tail hair-brown 
with pale margins to the former. Bill black, feet pale brown, tarsus lighter, eyes 
dull brown. Total length 182 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 96, tail 77, tarsus 28. 
Figured. Collected at Yalgoo Gold Fields Mid- west Australia, on the 19th of 
August, 1903, and is the type of Cincloramphus ■ mathewsi Iredale. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper -parts dark hair-brown including the head, 
back, wings and tail with buff margins to the feathers, which are paler and inclining 
to white on the wings ; upper tail-coverts rust-colour ; the margins of the tail- 
feathers are also paler than the back, there is an indication of obsolete crossbars on the 
tail-feathers ; base of lores and a line over the eye and along the side of the crown 
buffy-white ; a line behind the eye earth-brown ; throat buffy-white ; breast, 
abdomen, thighs and under tail-coverts pale buff somewhat darker on the sides 
of the body ; axillaries and under wing-coverts buffy-white ; under-surface of 
flight-quills pale brown with buff inner edges ; lower aspect of tail also pale brown, 
with pale narrow margins to the feathers. Eyes brown, bill purplish-brown, feet 
and legs flesh. Total length 162 mm. ; culmen 11, wing 77, tail 65, tarsus 23. 
Figured. Collected in East Murchison, West Australia, on the 20th of September, 
1909. 
Adult male similar to the adult female. 
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